Yuvasree Purusothaman

Postdoctoral Scholar

Email: yzp5159@psu.edu

Office Address:188, 230 Innovation Blvd, State College, PA 16803

Education

Ph.D. – Mechatronics Engineering, Jeju National University, South Korea, 2019
M.Tech – Nanotechnology, Anna University, India, 2014
B.E – Electronics and Communication Engineering, Anna University, India, 2012

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Research Interests/Areas of Research

Piezoelectric ceramics
Energy harvesters
Flexible devices and sensors

Awards

Recipient of Young Investigator Project (Principal Investigator), National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF), 2019-2020
Recipient of Brain Korea 21 Plus (BK 21+) Fellowship, Korea Research Foundation for Doctoral Research, 2016-2019
The ICAE Award (Oral), International Conference on Advanced Electromaterials, Jeju, Republic of Korea, 2019
Best Poster Award, European – Materials Research Society fall meeting (E-MRS), Warsaw, Poland, 2018
Best Poster Award, 4th International Conference on Nanogenerator and Piezotronics (NGPT), Seoul, Republic of Korea, 2018
Best Poster paper Award, 5th International Conference on Electronic Materials and Nanotechnology for Green Environment (ENGE), Jeju, Republic of Korea, 2018

Publications

1. Yuvasree Purusothaman, Nagamalleswara Rao Alluri, Arunkumar Chandrasekhar, Venkateswaran Vivekananthan, Sang-Jae Kim. Piezo-phototronic Gated Optofluidic Logic Computations Empowering Intrinsic Reconfigurable Switches. Nature Communications, 2019, 10, 4381.

2. Yuvasree Purusothaman, Nagamalleswara Rao Alluri, Arunkumar Chandrasekhar, Sang-Jae Kim. Photoactive Piezoelectric Energy Harvester Driven by Antimony Sulfoiodide (SbSI): A AVBVICVII Class Ferroelectric-Semiconductor Compound. Nano Energy, 2018, 50, 256.

3. Yuvasree Purusothaman, Nagamalleswara Rao Alluri, Arunkumar Chandrasekhar, Venkateswaran Vivekananthan, Sang-Jae Kim. Regulation of Charge Carrier Dynamics in ZnO Micro-Architecture-Based UV/Visible Photodetector via Photonic-Strain Induced Effects. Small, 2018, 14, 1703044.